Is Cold Fusion possible?

Is Cold Fusion possible? And if so, how would you destroy the world with it?

This thread should go in chit chat.

If cold fusion were possible, it would be happening randomly all the time. The forces required to condense two atoms close enough together that their nuclei fuse are massive. We're talking about overcoming the Strong Nuclear force, the strongest of the four forces, and it doesn't happen at room temperature.

Besides, why would you destroy the world? Then my current project would be worthless.

bob

Of course cold fusion is possible, every week i actively try to prevent cold pizza fusing to my carpet. On numerous occasions I have almost resorted to strong nuclear forces!

heheheheheh

Cold fusion is possible, i'm just working on an application with some API's that calls them self i an order that starts some coldfusion in the electronic circuits at R2D2C3P0 in the mainboard. Occasionally i blow up the computer too.

I agree with yu as well. Cold Fusion is possible, maybe in the near future we can prove it.

What exactly would you like to do? Blow up the world? If so, I don't want to help you. What I need to know is what's meant by "fusion". Is this the release of energy though two atoms combining? If so I think that squaring the force of the individual atoms's resistence would counteract their ability to split apart, but I don't know how you could make the shells envelope their selves.Thanks for letting me babble.

I am a scientist.

Well, not really. But I know enough.

The thing is that at Kelvin 0 (c. -273 degrees celsius)
all atoms stop moving.

The temperature for cold fusion to occur is below -273, but
since all atomic and subatomic movement ceases at -273 there
is now way to get colder, and therefore no way to have cold
fusion.

:o

Why does it have to be below 0 Kelvin?

There's no such thing as below 0 Kelvin, or do you mean a negative temprature (-ve tempratures are wierd quantum things that are actually very hot indeed), below zero tempratures is like saying bigger than infinity. (Gen-X leave it.) it just doesn't make sense.

0K is not the same as -273C, its -273,15... a Real constant
But in my computer it went below 0K

Is there any limit to the hottest temperature?

Nope as long as you can keep the heat pumping in.

heh :) I wonder how hot it was at plank time (A couple of seconds after the big bang)

Pretty Toasty

you could be fried in a second.

Another thought about cold fusion: It could help us
with our energy problems a lot!! We wouldn't have to
worry about nuclear wastes etc. etc.

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Megatron: Is there any limit to the hottest temperature?
Sam Finch: Nope as long as you can keep the heat pumping in.

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Yes there is a limit, if we use all the energy in universe including all heat, movement, matter (E=MC^2), exactly everything to heat up something, and we take the smallest particle in universe, and see how "hot" it gets. Well that would be pretty hot i think, but you can't exceed that temperature.

Why does Cold Fusion produce less waste than Hot Fission?

I think because the joining of the atoms can cause the "waste" to be reused.

I'd disagree with that, we havn't even decided what atoms are best for cold fusion(or have we? I don't know about these things)

Probably Hydrogen, since 90% of the universe is hydrogen.

0% is of universe is hydrogen you mean, 90% of universe matter.

90% of matter is hydrogen :)

So what.

The thing is that i need to get more posts, youre way to close. When i wake up tomorrow youre long way up 700 posts, and thats unfair:(

don't worry, I'm still 17 posts behind.

What's this about Cold Fusion?

15 posts actually, but I was really afraid you would take over this night, batsam

Nobody stay up all night just to post (or do they...)

Yes, I am, and its your fault megatron, youre overposting this site, i got a bunch of 14 replies to, and guess what, they where all from megatron!

But it wasn't at night.

It is here, 24:00, and guess what, im going up 6 to work

You should get some sleep

any comments about cold fusion?

Oh yeah, I forogt what the whole point of this subject was!
Some posted, awhile back that the temperature has to be 0 Kelvin to achieve Cold Fusion. Why does it have to be that low?

Having looked at that again, That's stupid, cold fusion is aboud getting nuclear fusion at atainable tempratures. At the moment we use nuclear fusion in nuclear weapons, but you need a normal nuclear bomb to get the temprature hot enough to achieve fission.

It is stupid, 0 kelvin means that the atoms are absolutley still.

I don't know exactly how you're going to get them to fuse without them being able to move close to each other.

It doesn't have to be 0 Kelvin though. They can virtually stop wobbling at -250 C.

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[Edited by Sam Finch on 05-06-2000 at 12:35 AM]

Just make sure nobody knows